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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 04:42 PM Jan 2014

New Memo: Kissinger Gave the "Green Light" for Argentina's Dirty War

New Memo: Kissinger Gave the "Green Light" for Argentina's Dirty War

—By David Corn

| Tue Jan. 14, 2014 12:23 PM GMT

Only a few months ago, Henry Kissinger was dancing with Stephen Colbert in a funny bit on the latter's Comedy Central show. But for years, the former secretary of state has sidestepped judgment for his complicity in horrific human rights abuses abroad, and a new memo has emerged that provides clear evidence that in 1976 Kissinger gave Argentina's neofascist military junta the "green light" for the dirty war it was conducting against civilian and militant leftists that resulted in the disappearance—that is, deaths—of an estimated 30,000 people.

In April 1977, Patt Derian, a onetime civil rights activist whom President Jimmy Carter had recently appointed assistant secretary of state for human rights, met with the US ambassador in Buenos Aires, Robert Hill. A memo recording that conversation has been unearthed by Martin Anderson, who in 1987 first reported that Kissinger had told the Argentine generals to proceed with their terror campaign against leftists (whom the junta routinely referred to as "terrorists&quot . The memo notes that Hill told Derian about a meeting Kissinger held with Argentine Foreign Minister Cesar Augusto Guzzetti the previous June. What the two men discussed was revealed in 2004 when the National Security Archive obtained and released the secret memorandum of conversation for that get-together. Guzzetti, according to that document, told Kissinger, "our main problem in Argentina is terrorism." Kissinger replied, "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly. But you must get back quickly to normal procedures." In other words, go ahead with your killing crusade against the leftists.

The new document shows that Kissinger was even more explicit in encouraging the Argentine junta. The memo recounts Hill describing the Kissinger-Guzzetti discussion this way:


The Argentines were very worried that Kissinger would lecture to them on human rights. Guzzetti and Kissinger had a very long breakfast but the Secretary did not raise the subject. Finally Guzzetti did. Kissinger asked how long will it take you (the Argentines) to clean up the problem. Guzzetti replied that it would be done by the end of the year. Kissinger approved.

In other words, Ambassador Hill explained, Kissinger gave the Argentines the green light.

That's a damning statement: a US ambassador saying a secretary of state had egged on a repressive regime that was engaged in a killing spree.

More:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/new-memo-kissinger-gave-green-light-argentina-dirty-war?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+%7C+MoJoBlog%29

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New Memo: Kissinger Gave the "Green Light" for Argentina's Dirty War (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2014 OP
The real scumfuck that Kissinger is. I never understood the adulation kysrsoze Jan 2014 #1
I have always been disgusted by him........ Swede Atlanta Jan 2014 #2

kysrsoze

(6,019 posts)
1. The real scumfuck that Kissinger is. I never understood the adulation
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 04:55 PM
Jan 2014

Kissinger is a disgusting excuse for a human being.

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
2. I have always been disgusted by him........
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:28 PM
Jan 2014

Given the fact his people were slaughtered by the Nazis in WWII, you would think he would be adverse to the systematic torture and elimination of political enemies.

But he and Tricky Dicky had no problem knowing they had unleashed forces that tortured and killed thousands. I'm glad he will have a nice warm place to rest his sad wrinkled ass for eternity.

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